Vanchii Lashawn Jefferson has football in his blood.
Before he was a four-star recruit out of Tennessee, before he started at Ole Miss in his freshman season and led AJ Brown and DK Metcalf in receptions, and way before he committed to the NFL draft, he was growing up watching his father, Shawn Jefferson, catch passes for 13 years in the NFL. Shawn is now the assistant head coach and WR coach with the New York Jets.
The time has now come for Van to follow his father’s footsteps in the NFL. We talked to the man himself, broke down the tape, and made sense of the numbers:
Crunching the numbers:
At 6’1″, 200 LBs, Van has decent size to go along with a top of the class route-running ability.